Inside Xiao's mansion, Old General Xiao was sitting in the yard right now.
There was no one around him, as if he had already known about the arrival of the crowd, and he also understood that the matter had been revealed, but he did not resist.
The wooden door of the soft sedan chair outside the main gate opened, and a man with a white mask got out of the sedan chair first, and then he stretched out his hand, and carefully helped the nobleman in the sedan chair down.
In the flames, the eldest princess raised her eyes, and said slowly to the headed guard: "Take it, old general Xiao, you don't need these things."
The leading soldier waved his hand, but the whole Xiao Mansion didn't feel a bit more stable, on the contrary, the atmosphere became more stagnant.
The eldest princess cut her haircut, walked into the gate accompanied by the masked man, walked from the gate to the courtyard, walked through the long corridor, and saw the well-dressed old General Xiao sitting on a chair.
Xiao Zhengwei was old, his hair was gray, and his skin was wrinkled and droopy, but his eyes were like eagles. When he heard the movement, he turned his head to look, and seeing that it was the eldest princess, there was a smile in his eyes.
"It really is you."
The eldest princess stood in front of him not too far away, dignified and appropriate: "General Xiao, long time no see."
Xiao Zhengwei said: "It's been a long time. It's been six years since I left the imperial city."
The eldest princess stood there with a smile: "Six years... Thinking of the heroic appearance of General Xiao back then, I really miss it, but I didn't know at that time that six years later, I would meet the general in such a way."
Xiao Zhengwei sneered: "I followed His Highness's wish."
The eldest princess looked sideways, and the masked man conjured up a chair. The eldest princess just sat in front of Xiao Zhengwei, as comfortably as a pair of grandparents chatting in the courtyard.
"That's not bad. Everyone knows that Old General Xiao is the backer of His Highness the Crown Prince. Even though my palace has worked hard to send you from the court to this Le City, you still have no strength to use. Younger, he is indeed a veteran, how can he be compared to a woman in this palace."
Xiao Zhengwei narrowed his eyes: "Even if I die, you still can't touch His Royal Highness."
The eldest princess's eyes were heavy: "Yes, even if you are dead, but the emperor is still there, who can shake the position of the prince..."
Xiao Zhengwei suddenly sighed: "Your Highness, your heart is too high. If you can let yourself and others go, you won't live so hard."
The eldest princess raised her eyes to look at him, and said without anger and prestige: "Interesting, the general is in such a situation now, but he came to persuade me, but he didn't know why the old general Xiao didn't let himself go, and the innocent people in Chunan? "
There was biting coldness in her words, but Xiao Zhengwei laughed.
"Let me go, hahaha... Your Highness really, why don't you eat minced meat..."
He laughed crazily for a while, before stopping for a long time: "If I could do it all over again, I would rather not have all of this."
The eldest princess looked calm: "Since you have made a choice, you deserve all this."
"Deserved it..."
Xiao Zhengwei murmured, and suddenly changed his face, ferocious and terrifying: "What should I suffer! What should I not suffer!"
"I was a mere concubine who gave birth to a son. I was thrown into the barracks at the age of ten. From then on, I was arrogant. How much I hated it! The young master of the Xiao family has no worries since he was a child, and I... can't even protect my own mother!"
Xiao Zhengwei crushed the armrest of the chair: "I have worked so hard to make contributions, and I have been guarding the border for more than ten years before I got a high position. How can I! How can I be reconciled!"
The eldest princess sneered: "Then what are you regretting now? After living to this age, there is still something that you can't see through. After all, you will turn into loess and do this harmful deed."
Xiao Zhengwei looked at her sullenly: "Why can't I do it? I don't have a wife, I don't have children, and I watch these idiots from the Xiao family begging for their lives in fear all day long, but in the end, what's the use?"
The eldest princess stared at him for a long time before she stood up and said coldly: "There is no cure."
Xiao Zhengwei still smiled: "So what if it's hopeless, now I'm just defeated, it's just death, what's so scary?"
"On the contrary, it's you, what's the difference between you and me, the blood of the fourth prince and the sixth prince are all splashed on you, that's also your close relative, the highness dreamed back at midnight, have you ever been afraid?"
The eldest princess's smile receded. She was dressed in a gorgeous palace dress, but she looked like a dangerous flower, looking at people coldly, as if she was poisoned.
"Xiao Zhengwei, this is where I am better than you."
After all, she turned and left with a long wag of her tail, and the masked man followed immediately. When she reached the corridor again, soldiers from outside rushed in and detained Xiao Zhengwei.
The eldest princess couldn't help but pause, looking back from the nine-curved corridor, the masked man finally asked in confusion: "What are you looking at again, Your Highness?"
The eldest princess's red lips parted slightly: "Look at myself."
The masked man was silent for a moment, and then said: "Your Highness will not end up like this."
The eldest princess looked at him in surprise, and the man said, "With Qu Lian around, no one can catch the princess."
The eldest princess smiled: "Silly boy."
After finishing speaking, she raised her head, looked at the top of the high wall again, and shouted: "If you want to see it, you can look at it openly."
After peeking and being caught, Xiaolong Zaizai's first reaction was to hide himself in Jiang Wuyi's arms, then raised his head again, eager to go down and say hello.
Jiang Wuyi's expression remained bad, and he directly hugged the child into his arms, and just carried it away again.
Xiaolong tugged at his clothes: "I want to go."
Jiang Wuyi frowned: "You said you only looked at it."
Jiang Wuyi thought, I was stupid to let you chat with that woman, and directly carried the child to the highest position of Xiao Mansion's bell tower, then put it down, and pressed the child's head.
"I'll go back as soon as I go, wait obediently, don't run around."
Xiaolong pouted and snorted, Jiang Wuyi touched the child's earlobe: "Be obedient."
Xiao Zaizai didn't lose his temper until he was going to get the dragon scales: "Then come back quickly, if it's too late, I'll leave."
Jiang Wuyi smiled: "Okay."
When he left, Xiao Zai Zai really just lay obediently on the edge of the wall and looked down, standing on a high place looking at the big Xiao Mansion and the Lecheng city exposed outside.
In the second half of the night, the noisy city fell silent, without the noise of the day, and without the human fireworks during the feast of the bright moon. On the contrary, it made people feel a little cold.
I don't know why, Xiaolong was lying here, and suddenly missed Jiang Wuyi a little bit, obviously he had just left for a while, and he didn't talk much on weekdays, but he just felt that waiting here alone felt a little empty in his heart.
And when he was thinking wildly, another figure appeared on the eaves not far away. Xiaolong looked at it for a while, and then thought to his heart: It turns out that he and Jiang Yan are not the only ones listening to the corner!
But the man also noticed Xiaolong, paused, and walked to him lightly.
Only now did Xiaolong realize that the person in front of him was Liao Chengyin, and he took a deep breath: "Aren't you in the dungeon in Yizhuang?"
Liao Chengyin smiled: "That dungeon is vulgar, how could it trap me."
Xiaolong always felt that his tone was not the same as before, as if he had finally broken free from the shackles, and looked at him vigilantly: "What are you here for?"
Liao Chengyin felt comfortable, leaning against the wall to blow the air: "Of course I came to watch the excitement."
Xiaolong looked at the white silk on his eyes: "Can you see it?"
Liao Chengyin paused and changed his words: "Listen to the excitement."
Xiaolong was not very happy, and squinted at him: "Then should I take you back?"
Liao Chengyin shook his head: "It's better to say goodbye. Although my crime is not life-threatening, who knows how many years I will be thrown in prison, and then I will be tortured by a bad-tempered criminal officer. It's not good."
Charles looked at him for a while, and suddenly asked: "Actually, what Xiao Jue said is true, are you taking the blame for him?"
Liao Chengyin laughed: "Arguing for me?"
Xiaolong Zaizai snorted softly: "This has nothing to do with me, why should I lie to you?"
Liao Chengyin didn't speak anymore, he seemed to be concentrating on resting, but Xiao Zai Zai felt like a kitten was scratching his heart, he was really curious: "Why do you want to take the blame for Xiao Jue?"
"He is my junior brother, so I naturally want to protect him."
Xiao Zaizai touched his chin and looked at him for a while: "But they said you are cunning and cool, and you are the best at fooling people. The relationship between Xiao Jue and you is not very good..."
Liao Chengyin stopped laughing: "But it can't be Xiao Jue."
Xiaolong tilted his head inexplicably.
"Xiao Jue's heart is straightforward. If he is really allowed to carry this crime, he will be crippled for the rest of his life, but I am different. I can still be at ease after leaving Chu Nan and the sect."
Liao Chengyin continued: "Besides, Xiao Jue really didn't know about it at the beginning, and he bumped into him by mistake later, but he had complicated feelings for Old General Xiao, and he didn't know what to do at the moment. asked."
As he said that, he laughed again: "That idiot thought that he was hiding everything, and then I planned how to solve the matter quietly, at least take Xiao Jue out cleanly."
Xiaolong curled his lips: "Where is he clean? If that battle really succeeded, many people would have died... and many people have died now."
Liao Chengyin turned his face to him: "Isn't it a failure?"
Xiaolong thought to himself, it's just that we happened to be here.
Liao Chengyin continued: "Little friend, things in this world cannot be completely cleaned up."
Xiaolong snorted: "You used to say that all things are equal, but now you only favor him and don't care about the life or death of others."
"Why can't I take sides? I'm not a good person?"
Liao Chengyin looked at him with his chin propped up: "Or... you really believe me, think I'm innocent?"
Xiaolong felt that he had been deceived: "That's right, you still pushed me into the ghost house..."
Liao Chengyin said, "It's not me. I did attack that day, but it wasn't for you, but for Shen Sansi next to you, and I missed it, so I was stopped."
Xiaolong was puzzled and asked: "It's not you, who is that?"
Liao Chengyin smiled: "Don't forget, apart from me, there was more than one person who could push you down without anyone noticing."
That's right, Sect Master Liao and Sect Master Huang were also there that day, and even Qi Yan and Han Yue were not easy-going lamps.
Xiaolong could temporarily rule out Qi Yan, but the remaining three were unfathomable.
Liao Chengyin said: "Don't think about it, there are only two kinds of left and right, those who want to remind you of the dragon scale's position, or those who want to harm you."
Xiaolong's face was serious, but he couldn't think of it with his head, but he suddenly felt that Liao Chengyin was getting closer.
"what you do?"
Xiaolong hid back, Liao Chengyin chuckled: "Little friend, do you want to go with me?"
Xiaolong's eyes widened: "Going with you?"
Liao Chengyin nodded: "That day you said you liked me very much, I thought about it, you are really cute, very special, if you still like me very much, do you want to go with me? Go wherever you want, definitely Let you have fun."
Xiao Zai Zai didn't speak, so he continued to coax: "I have good aptitude, I should be able to ascend sooner or later, and then I will take you to the God Court to play, how about?"
Xiaolong repeatedly refused: "No, I don't want to go with you."
The smile on Liao Chengyin's face faded: "Do you like that Mr. Jiang?"
Xiaolong nodded naturally: "Of course I like it."
"I didn't mean... that's all."
Liao Chengyin sighed, thinking about reaching out his hand to take out a string of Buddha bell flowers from his bosom, and handing it to the child, Xiaolong reached out to catch it and asked, "For me?"
Liao Chengyin finally couldn't help reaching out and rubbing his head: "For you."
Xiaolong Zizai thought of the Buddha bell flower beside Qingyue who was escorting him, and felt inexplicably hot in his heart, thinking that although this person is not a good person, he is really good to these two juniors.
But as Liao Chengyin said, things in this world cannot be considered completely clean. He defends those close to him in every possible way, but in the end he will still hurt others.
Xiaolong Zaizai thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how to solve this problem, so he whispered: "Thank you."
Liao Chengyin walked gracefully: "There will be a period later."
After all, the figure in front of him disappeared.
Xiaolong Zaizai held the Buddha bell flower for a while, and he was left alone in this place, and the feeling of loneliness surrounded him again.
He frowned, and suddenly couldn't remember how he had survived a hundred years in Long Island before, obviously at that time he was also himself, staring at the sea in a daze.
Not long after, the air was filled with a familiar smell.
Xiaolong Zizai turned his head with bright eyes, saw Jiang Wuyi, jumped on him and hugged him: "Why are you so slow?"
Jiang Wuyi supported him firmly: "I replaced it with a fake dragon scale and put it back, Qi Yan and the others couldn't see it."
Xiaolong Zaizai opened his eyes wide: "Is that true?"
Jiang Wuyi raised his lips: "Of course I took it back, the spiritual power is not strong enough, how can I support you."
Xiao Long Zai Zai laughed, but Jiang Wuyi said: "Has anyone been here?"
Xiaolong was about to tell him what happened after Liao Chengyin came, but suddenly stopped.
Isn't this a ready-made little secret
So Xiaolong coughed lightly and jumped off him: "I won't tell you, it's a secret."
Jiang Wuyi narrowed his eyes dangerously, raised his hand to gently pinch his chin, stared at him and asked, "Secret?"
Xiaolong looked elsewhere, but didn't look at Jiang Wuyi: "Yes, it's a little secret, I don't want to tell you anyway."
Jiang Wuyi lowered his eyes, saw the string of Buddha bell flowers, sneered in his heart, and stretched out his hand to take the flowers away.
"Confiscated."
Xiaolong immediately became anxious: "It was given to me by someone else!"
Jiang Wuyi raised his eyebrows: "Zai Zai, as I said before, you are not allowed to take other people's things indiscriminately."
Xiaolong was angry: "Why are you being unreasonable?"
Jiang Wuyi put away the Buddha bell flower, looked sideways at him, and suddenly picked up the child.
"It's just unreasonable."
After all, the figures of the two quickly disappeared in place, and the bell tower was completely empty.